iamgeekfit

If you have been toying with the idea of working out but don't know how to get started - here's a simple plan.

For one week, do one push up, once a day.

That's it.

If you can't do a full push up from the ground, no worries, do one from your knees.

If that's too much for you today, that's ok, too. Lean stand arms length away from a wall, and do a push up against the wall.

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IAMGEEKFIT is usually about physical health and well-being. This entry is about getting right/fit mentally to get at that physical well being - and mental well being. It's about how to make sure when you set a goal, there's no insidious crap floating up around it, unseen, to sabotage your process. The clean up approach is called  "the sedona method."

Based on very preliminary (about a month of )study, there seems to be a really good approach to help not just set goals, but get rid of the crap around goals (eg, fear that might come up around a goal; trepidation; arrogance - whatever - all sorts of stuff).

We don't hear folks talk about that part of the goal process much. In fact i hadn't really thought about the "stuff" around a goal - having previously just focused on whether a goal was SMART (specific, measureable, etc) But what about whether the goal is really YOUR goal? Or if it is (like getting your phd before 2014), then is there stuff up around it that is making achieving it harder than it should be?

I've written a preliminary review of this approach to decluttering around goals over at begin2dig. Suffice it to say that getting a dead simple process to help clear out and let go of stuff around goals, and indeed just to be more open to other possibilities for health, wealth and relationship well being is a Really Good Thing.

If that sounds interesting, you can get a free CD/DVD and mp3 that actually lays out the whole process that's covered in the 20 CD (!) course . You may well find that you get enough from the CD and web site that you don't need anything else, but i'd encourage you to check out the cd freebie, poke around the articles on the site, and investigate what surfacing and sweeping out one's *stuff" might do for you. Let me know what you find.

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Here's a great reason for Geeks to get into resistance training:
fending off future bone loss - and bone loss is a big deal. We really do need to start banking it in childhood and early adulthood for use for what is, the rest of our post 25 year old lives. And if we plan on living past fifty, that's the more-than-50%-of-our-lives part:

In fact, healthy early life practices, including the adequate consumption of most nutrients, calcium in particular, and regular physical activity, contribute to greater bone mineral mass and optimal peak bone mass. Bone is living tissue that responds to exercise by becoming stronger.

and elsewhere:

Overall, the evidence strongly suggests that regular physical activity, especially started in childhood and adolescence, is a cheap and safe way of both improving bone strength and reducing the risk to fall.

So while we've all heard how good calcium is for bone health, fewer of us know, it seems, that bones are living thriving tissue that are CONSTANTLY rebuilding in what's called "remodelling." Bone loss is a constant and natural part of that process: out with the old; in with the new. We may hear about bone deterioration effects more in elderly women (all those broken hips ), bone loss is just as prevalent in all of us.

In a sense, to get our bodies to keep replacing the bone it takes away, we need to prove to our bodies regularly that we NEED the bone mineral density (BMD) we have, and if we want more, well, we have to prove that too. And we prove that by the demands we put on our frame, not by the amount of vitamins we take (though we need those too to build that bone).

The good news is that bone is amazing, living tissue - of which only a part is the skeletal remains we find in mummies and doctors offices. Bone tissue is also (like the rest of us it seems) highly plastic and responds constantly to the demands on it. The thing is, we have to keep making those demands.

The following article is about how bone adapts, and why therefore it's critical to one's longevity to start banking BMD now.

Continue reading "Bones: Care and Feeding for Robust Health - forever" »

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If you know someone who is getting into fitness right now, or is way into it already, and you're looking for stocking stuffers or larger, consider this list of suggestions over at begin2dig. If any of you want to do training in the new year, or online, shout.

Also, remember: if you feel a cold coming on, hit the Chillated Zinc. Maybe stock up now to be ready - it's not in every pharmacy.

And for just general health stay hydrated and up the vitamin D. Apparently just about all of us are Vit D deficient.

Best of the season to you!

mc

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So sit bolt up in that straight back chair and get ready for some difficult listening
- Laurie Anderson, Home of the Brave

Many of us have been told to "sit up straight" for the sake of our backs - and perhaps as children - to encourage proper bone growth.

Many of us have seen little wheelie chairs that induce a kind of kneeling that are supposed to be good for posture. Or have thought sitting on therapy balls a good way to encourage muscle action to support those low back vertebrae (they're not. i've gotten rid of mine).

Continue reading "Sit up Straight - or don't. What's good posture, anyway?" »

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